Three Cheers for Pioneers: A Review of Outer Space Anthropology
Savannah Mandel “Does that mean you study aliens?” During the year and half I spent working in the New Mexico …
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May Your Classroom Be a Sea Change: Further Thoughts on Teaching about Palestine
Maura Finkelstein I am still haunted by the stolen homes I en- countered in East Jerusalem in June of 2018. I was in P…
Ghost Dogs and Their Unwitting Accomplices
Stanley Gehrt Foreword, by Rylan Higgins Stan Gehrt and I “met” for the first time via Zoom in May of 2021. We …
Overlaps, Disjunctures and Possibilities: Evolutionary Anthropology and Medical Practice in Conversa
Agustín Fuentes & Eleanor Lisa Lavadie-Gómez In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the complexity of human health…
When Animals Talk Back
Don Kulick On a beautiful autumn day in 2019, I found myself in southern England, sitting in a straight-backed chair, …
Thailand’s Most Famous Writer Finally Published in English
Thailand’s most famous and beloved writer– Rong Wongsawan’s work has been translated, edited and published in English for the first time. For admirers of Thailand and its culture,…
Links & Contents I Liked 461
Hi all,I enjoyed my short break in Berlin, including a first meeting with the advisory board of Engineers Without Borders Germany.I’m keeping this review #COP27 free, because there…
Meredith Schweig, “Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when nearly four decades of martial law under the Chinese Nationalist…
Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology
Contents Peasant: 1 …
Beveridge Revisited: Why does poverty still stalk the UK?
On the 80th anniversary of the Beveridge report, the five ‘giants’ he sought to slay are alive and well and stalking this green and pleasant land. A new book…
Research Assistant positions for MFN, NG, and NCC students (MUNL St. John’s campus)
CLEAR lab has openings for undergraduate and graduate student research assistants to work on environmental samples from Miawpukek First Nation, the Nunatsiavut Government, and NunatuKavut Community Co…
Rustom Bharucha, “The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance, and Public Culture” (Seagull Books, 2022)
Lessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. Focusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between April and December…
Sarah E. Wagner, “What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War” (Harvard UP, 2019)
For many families the Vietnam War remains unsettled. Nearly 1,600 Americans— and more than 300,000 Vietnamese—involved in the conflict are still unaccounted for. In What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing…
Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, “Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation” (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish’s edited book Food Instagram: Identity, Influence,…
Yuliya Grinberg takes the page 99 test
At one Quantified Self event, Dave offered a particularly striking comparison between automobiles and bodies, one, he says, his father, a car aficionado, failed to fully appreciate to…
Richard Petts, “Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers” (Routledge, 2022)
Richard Petts’ Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers (Routledge, 2022) focuses on issues of family, work, and gender, with a focus on gender…
Lavanya Vemsani, “Hinduism in Middle India: Narasimha, The Lord of the Middle” (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Narasimha is one of the least studied major deities of Hinduism. Furthermore, there are limited studies of the history, thought, and literature of middle India. Lavanya Vemsani redresses…
Iranian Women ask for ‘Life’ and ‘Freedom’
The veil has become a tool for resistance in Iran. Women set their veils on fire and demand self-determinacy over their bodies. The movement is not against religion.…
Toxicity, Violence, and the Legacies of Mercury and Gold Mining in Colombia
Stubborn substances and toxic legacies Toxic substances are often portrayed as stubborn molecules that resist being restricted to the places where we would like to contain them in…
What Is Linguistic Anthropology?
Linguistic anthropologists study language in context, revealing how people’s ways of communicating and expressing themselves interact with human culture, history, politics, identity, and much more. W…
Desires in Gear: The Politics of Kinky Sexuality and Consumption in the Gear Fetish Community
When you think of an expensive outfit, what comes to mind probably won’t be a hazmat diving suit designed to keep your entire body out of contaminated water.…
UiT MVA programme international applications (deadline: 15 November)
The deadline for international (non-EU) applicants for the Master of Visual Anthropology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (for the autumn 2023 semester) has been moved two…
A Somali Archaeologist Is Championing Heritage in the Horn of Africa
An interview with Sada Mire dives into the difficulties and rewards of preserving history and letting local perspectives guide heritage management in Somalia and Somaliland. ✽ Somalia and…
The Future of Rules: A Discussion with Lorraine Daston
Which rules do we obey and which ones can we find a way around? What distinctions can be drawn between rules, models to be emulated and algorithms. Lorraine…